International media coverage in the 1960s and 1970s represented the Biafran War, in which the state of Biafra attempted to secede from the Nigerian Federation. The author examines the role of foreign parties in the conflict and the impact of propaganda upon its international reception both during an[...]
In Why People Believe Weird Things, science historian Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons we find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. The editor of Skeptic magazine and the director of the Skeptics Society, Shermer shows how the eternal search for meaning[...]